Southeast Asia and the Power Triangle – USA, USSR, PRCChiang Hai Ding

ASIEN – Nr. 13 (1984) pp. 5–10

The author, Singapore’s Ambassador to the Holy See, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and the EC, looks at the positions of the USA, the USSR and China after the victories of the communist forces in South Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos in 1975. Vietnamese intervention in Cambodia in December 1978 and the eruption of Sino-Soviet rivalry in Southeast Asia. Deterioration of the position of the USA relative to China and the USSR in this region. ASEAN’s role in Southeast Asia.